Archive for the 'Central America' Category

Zihuatenejo

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

I made it out of Colola, after having seen some amazing turtles crawling the beaches, looking for place to lay their eggs. Very cool sight. When you´re in the middle of nowhere though, nobody has a clue about if there are any buses out of there, and if so, when they´ll come. So if you […]

Bienvenidos a Mexico!

Monday, July 11th, 2005

The flight to Mexico City was a long one. Once landed, I found myself in a climate of rain rain rain. It was pooring down from the skies. I guess that´s what ¨rainy season¨ means… Luckily in the daytime it´s quite warm and sunny. Mexico City is absolutely huge. With 25 million […]

Goodbye goodbye

Monday, July 4th, 2005

A very quick update. The last days I’ve been running around like crazy to get everything in order for my big departure day. Unbelievable that in a day I’ll be about 10 thousand kilometres from Amsterdam. Anyway, my room’s clean, my backpack’s packed (I did it again: my 35-litre-backpack still has plenty of space left!! […]

Sorting things out…

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

In exactly one week I’ll already be walking around in Mexico City. Man, time does fly. I’m trying to tie up the last bits and pieces of everything that goes around here in Amsterdam. It’s the last week of university for this year, and there are still two courses which I have to finish before […]

Health supplies

Friday, June 17th, 2005

I’ve never been this well prepared for a journey in the sense of medical stuff and health. Perhaps it’s because I’m crossing a huge ocean, landing in a region that’s the furthest away from my home country as I’ve ever been. Perhaps it’s because I’m older and wiser (lol - who am I kidding!). Perhaps […]